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Global Cities Render National Borders Obsolete

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全球城市淘汰国界 In his new book "Connectography", Parag Khanna, a global strategist, outlines the changes in our perception of geography - in the age of "global cities", national borders don't matter as much. These global cities are perfect arenas for city venture, a CIV research strand.

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Water Venture 2015 Videos are Online

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On January 28th, 2015, the Coller Institute of Venture co-hosted the first Lisbon-Tel Aviv Water Venture Workshop at the ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. The objective of our workshop was to connect industry, leading academic research and business initiatives relating to water. Talks from the workshop are now available on our website for members of the CIV online community. Among the …

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Yale’s Endowment Returns Soar with 14% Invested in Venture Capital

耶鲁大学捐赠基金收益率领跑,14%用于风险投资 Yale prides itself at placing a large stake of its portfolio (14%) in VC, compared to an average of 4.6% in other universities' endowment investments. Yale's VC portfolio has demonstrated average returns of 18% p.a. along the past 10 years, investing in start-ups turned "unicorns" like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Uber, among others.

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Researchers Mend Broken Hearts – A Case of Deep Innovation

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特拉维夫大学研究人员修复受损心脏 About 735,000 Americans have a heart attack every year.  So far, nothing could be done to repair or replace the dead muscle tissue, however nowadays a group of Tel-Aviv University researchers, headed by Prof. Tal Dvir, is working on a printable biocompatible scaffold bearing nano-electric abilities that may be used to surgically "mend a broken heart".

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